Chicken-brooder



(No Model.)

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CHICKEN BROODER.

No. 379,398. Patented Mar; 13, 1888.

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UNITED STATES CHARLES HOUSER, OF EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS.

CHlCKEN-BROODER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379.398, dated March 13,1888.

Application filed October 18, 1887. Serial No. 252,669. (No model.)

To all 2071,0777, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES HOUSER, of East St. Louis, in the county of St. Clair and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Ohicken-Brooder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to chicken-brooders, the object of the invention being to provide a brooder which shall be so constructed that all overcrowding of the chickens in any particular spot will be prevented; and to this end the invention consists of a rectangular box or case provided with a waterheating apparatus, and within which there are arranged a coil of steampipes and a brooding and a hiding board, all as will be hereinafter more fully explained, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a sectional plan view taken on the broken line x 00 of Fig. 2, with parts removed; and Fig. 2 isa sectional elevation taken on the broken line 3 y of Fig. 1, the hidingboard being seen in elevation.

In constructing such a brooder as the one illustrated in the drawings above referred to, I provide a box-like structure, 10, the walls of which are made of two thicknesses of material, between which thicknesses of material I place felt or proper packing, 11. In the side walls of the box 10 I arrange windows 12 and openings 13 and 14, the opening 13 being covered with glass, while the opening 14 is covcred with wire netting or gauze.

At one corner of the apparatus I mount a boiler, 15, which is formed with a lamp or heating chamber, 16, communication with which is established by means of a door, 17, a smoke pipe or fine, 18, leading from the chamber16, as is clearly shown in the drawings. A pipe, 20, leads from the lower portion of the boiler 15 inward toward the center of the apparatus, the pipe being carried forward in spiral form, the center coils of the spiral being more highly elevated than are the outer coils of the spiral. At the center of the spiral formed by the pipe 20 said pipe is carried downward to-the flooring of the box-like structure 10, thence to one of the side walls of said structure, there to connect with a larger pipe, 21, which extends upward to the ceiling of the structure, and is then carried forward and about the structure just beneath the ceiling and in close proximity to the side walls of the structure, to be connected with the boiler 15 at a point, a. (See Fig. 2.)

In one of the side walls of the box 10 I arrange a ventilating-trap, 23, which is eccen trically mounted within its opening, the arrangement being such that when the tempera ture within the box 10 rises to too high a degree it will force the ventilator-trap 23 outward, and a portion of the heated air will escape, cool air entering through the opening 14.

The bottom of the box 10 is covered with sand, 24:, and upon this sand there is placed a conical brooding-board, 25, above which there is suspended a board, 26, beneath which the chickens may hide when they desire, the board 26 being connected to a downwardly-extending rod, 27, the upper end of which extends out through the top wall of the case 10, there to engage with a regulating-nut, 28, the arrangement being such that the board 26 may be moved upward or downward until in the required position for use.

In operation a lamp or other heating apparatus is placed in the chamber 16, and as the water within the boiler boils the steam gener ated will pass through the pipe 21 and thence to the coil formed by the pipe 20, the water of condensation returning to the boiler through said pipe 20, a safety valve or flap, 29, being arranged in connection with the boiler, preferably as indicated in Fig. 2.

The whole apparatus above described is mounted upon wheels or casters 30, so that it may be trundled to any position to receive full benefit of the suns rays.

By forming the case 10 rectangular the corners of the case will bethe coolest portions thereof, and all crowding ol the chickens in such corners will consequently be avoided, and by forming the brooder-board conical, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the crowding of the chickens to a point directly beneath the center of the hiding-board will be avoided.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a brooder, the combination, with a case and a heating apparatus arranged in connec tion therewith, of a conical or convex faced brooding-board mounted therein.

2. In a brooder, thecombination, with a case and a means for heating the same, of a conical brooding-board mounted within the case and a hiding-board mounted above the brooding" board.

3. In abrooder, the combination, with a case and a means for heating the same, of a conical brooding-board mounted within the case and a hiding-board adjustably mounted above the brooding-board.

4. In a chicken-brooder, the combination, with a rectangular case, of aspirally-hentpipe arranged therein, the central coils of the pipe beingin planes that are higher than the outer coils, a boiler to which the spiral pipe is connected, a sand mound formed within the case so as to extend above the spiral coil, a brooding-board which rests upon the sand mound, and a hiding-board mounted above the brooding-board.

CHARLES HOUSER.

\Vitnesses:

JAMES P. DOYLE, Tnos. J. CLARK. 

